Crosswinds Accelerated High School

Size

Crosswinds Accelerated High School is the 5th largest of Grand Prairie ISD's 8 high schools; its 435 students are 1.7% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 648; Crosswinds Accelerated High School is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 12 with 206 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 18, against an average of 109 per grade. This year grade 12 has 1,044% more students than grade 9 (206 against 18). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 79.3% here and 70% across Grand Prairie ISD. Black students are next, at 11.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

56.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 73.3% across Grand Prairie ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 19.84 full-time-equivalent teachers for 435 students, Crosswinds Accelerated High School has 21.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 435 students would have about 31.1 teachers, so Crosswinds Accelerated High School has 11.3 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Crosswinds Accelerated High School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other high school is Grand Prairie Fine Arts Academy, 0.8 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 48 other high schools, 13 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.